Psophocarpus
| Psophocarpus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Tribe: | Phaseoleae |
| Genus: | Neck. ex DC. |
| Species | |
| see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Psophocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of climbing herbs or subshrubs native to tropical Africa. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical forest and forest margins, moist wooded grassland and grassland, thicket, swamp, and secondary vegetation.[1] It belongs to subfamily Faboideae.
Species
There are currently 10 living species of Psophocarpus:[2][3]
- Subgenus Psophocarpus
Sect. Psocarpus
- P. grandiflorus R.Wilczek – umuharakuku
- P. obovalis Tisser.
- P. palustris Desv.
- P. scandens (Endl.)Verdc. – anonantaka
- P. tetragonolobus (L.) DC. – asparagus bean, princess bean, four-angled bean, winged bean
Sect. Unifoliate
- P. lecomtei Tisser.
- P. monophyllus Harms
- Subgenus Vignopsis
- P. indicus Wild. – goa bean, winged bean [Note 1]
- P. lancifolius Harms
- P. lukafuensis (De Wild.)R.Wilczek
Notes
- ^ Not included in Fatihah et al.
- ^ a b Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
- ^ "CoL 2019 Checklist: Taxonomic Tree #Psophocarpus". 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ Fatihah, H.N. Nur; Maxted, N.; Rico Arce, L. (2011). "Cladistic analysis of Psophocarpus Neck. ex DC. (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae) based on morphological characters". South African Journal of Botany. 83: 78–88. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2012.07.010.